This essay examines the representation of Italy in Henry Blake Fuller's fiction. Best-known today as the author of landmark realistic novels such as "The Cliff-Dwellers" and "With the Procession", set in his native Chicago, Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1829) developed a lifelong attraction to Italy, a country he saw as a possible refuge from technology, industrialization, and materialism. The analysis of Fuller's use of Italian settings in the short-story collections "From the Other Side" (1898), "Waldo Trench and Others" (1908), and the novel "The Last Refuge" (1900) shows Fuller moving away from traditional, Grand Tour destinations in an attempt to find a space where aesthetic considerations take precedence over utilitarianism.
"The land that is not": l'Italia di Henry Blake Fuller
BUONOMO, LEONARDO
2012-01-01
Abstract
This essay examines the representation of Italy in Henry Blake Fuller's fiction. Best-known today as the author of landmark realistic novels such as "The Cliff-Dwellers" and "With the Procession", set in his native Chicago, Henry Blake Fuller (1857-1829) developed a lifelong attraction to Italy, a country he saw as a possible refuge from technology, industrialization, and materialism. The analysis of Fuller's use of Italian settings in the short-story collections "From the Other Side" (1898), "Waldo Trench and Others" (1908), and the novel "The Last Refuge" (1900) shows Fuller moving away from traditional, Grand Tour destinations in an attempt to find a space where aesthetic considerations take precedence over utilitarianism.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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